I was the first Signals tech that moved into the AT&T Comms dish at Stanley just before the Argies surrendered and this mad tall man in a beaten up barbour put a pistol to my head and kept shouting at me " First copy, First copy"!! I said take all that stuff and send it by Marisat or find a 30 Sigs sat det, this ain't working yet.

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If some journo put a pistol to my head to ensure his 'copy' got out first, the moment it was lowered he would have to start working out how to type up his subsequent 'copy' with a full set of broken digits, and how much his lack of teeth would affect talking into his dictaphone!

I suppose the pictures of the Argie marines landing at Stanley and the noted lack of a sat dish in the backround could somewhat bring my comments into dis-repute. But I was down there in 86 looking after DCN 0060 and 0061 amongst other things.

I suppose the pictures of the Argie marines landing at Stanley and the noted lack of a sat dish in the backround could somewhat bring my comments into dis-repute. But I was down there in 86 looking after DCN 0060 and 0061 amongst other things.

I suppose the pictures of the Argie marines landing at Stanley and the noted lack of a sat dish in the backround could somewhat bring my comments into dis-repute. But I was down there in 86 looking after DCN 0060 and 0061 amongst other things.

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Do you remember the big contractor that looked like a cross between Bigfoot and Chewbakker who was always trying to start a fight in the Gull and Penguin on a Saturday night

The percieved wisdom is that Max Hastings took all the other newspaper reporters "copy" ref the Argie surrender and went out to transmit them by Marisat, but "unfortunatly" there was only time to transmit his and thus make a scoop for his paper, the others had to wait till later as the Navy had important comms that used up all the rest of the traffic time for ages.